The Life Is A Casting La Vita è Un Prov

A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life

After amassing credit card debt due to overspending to compensate for her unfulfilling marriage, a housewife decides to begin part time work at a brothel.

The five employees of Studio Delta were finishing their work and preparing for their end-of-year and New Year holidays. Ume's friend suddenly had a plan and couldn't help Ume with the Comic Market which was happening at the end of the year. Momoe decided to accompany Ume and only remembered on that day that she is supposed to meet her favorite A-kun. In addition, a sudden work request happened at Studio Delta and the work needs to be completed by New Year's Eve. Will the employees be able to welcome the New Year safely?

Documentary short.

"A Vida em Comum" follows a period in the life of Poeta and Belinha, a couple of Cape Verdean origin who lives in a community scheduled to be dismantled: the neighbourhood of Barruncho, in Odivelas. Uncertain about the future, Poeta and Belinha take care of their animals and crops, and adjust to the daily changes.

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

Made with great technical skill, this intimate exploration cleverly interweaves the past and present in order to shed light on the future.

On the cusp of adulthood and in search of work qualifications and a better life, Franciszek Wróbel - a baker from a small village on the Czech border of south-western Poland - emigrates to industrial Silesia to join the Voluntary Labour Corps. There he is chosen from all of the applicants to write a diary of his experiences and daily life. Between his vocational courses and training, he struggles to make friends, pass his exams, and maintain relationships with girls.

The film is set in the Tunkinskaya Valley. Successful businessman Vyacheslav returns to his small homeland, to take his mother with him. That she lived with him in the city. The mother's reluctance to move, everyday problems force Vyacheslav to stay longer. With each new day, he sees and personally faces the problems of rural life. Will he be able to unwind the tangle of unsolved problems or will he leave everything as it is? You will see in our film.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

A poetic portrayal of the life of Shirin Parsi - rice farmer, environmentalist, and social activist.

The story about Vidosava Vida Bulajic, the exculpated prisoner from the political prison of Goli Otok (Yugoslavia). Is the fight for ideals a virtue or a tool of manipulation?

In 2013, My Voice, My Life followed classes of students from three high schools for underprivileged kids and one school for the visually impaired as they embarked on a voyage of self-discovery through taking part in a musical production. Six years later, what kinds of lives are they leading now? My Voice, My Life Revisited goes in search of four of those students: Ah Bok, Coby, Sio Fan and Tsz Nok, charting their transformation and how they have grown over these past few years, as well as the challenges they are facing today.

Nagieb Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin and he believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. Nagieb a man with a mission. A few years ago Nagieb traveled to Afghanistan in order to refine the simplistic media image of the country, but he ended up as a prisoner of the Taliban and barely escaped. On the next trip, Nagieb brought 30 mobile cameras and asked Afghan civilians to film themselves. For the first time, we are invited into life in the forbidden zone with all the joys and sorrows, victories and defeats associated with living in the shadow of war.

A short documentary about the Finnish fisherman, ornithologist, philosopher and deep ecologist Pentti Linkola (1932–2020). As the title indicates, the film focuses on Linkola's everyday activities during one day on his primitive estate and its surroundings in Southern Finland, shot sometime near the end of the summer in 2018. Thus the film is probably the last extensive footage of Linkola before his death on in April 2020 (right at the start of the COVID pandemic) and one of the few showing his everyday life during the summer more in detail. Other documentary films about him have focused more on the fishing that he did for a living during the autumn and winter months, in the luddite way that he did most things (using only a rowboat and a horse-drawn sleigh when the lake froze down).

The documentary tells the history of the oldest ghetto in Europe and of the Venetian Jewish community. 2016 will be its Quincentennial.The eyes of a Jewish teenager, of Venetian origin, but born and raised in New York, will lead us in this journey. Lorenzo is guided by his Aunt and two young Venetian cousins who offer him the stimulus to enter more and more into a world unknown to him.The Ghetto's atmosphere, places and history are recreated by interviews to scholars, docu-fiction and a modern animation. The history of the Venice ghetto offers us an opportunity to reflect on the story of an immigration and of a slow integration, an example of the enormous wealth that the exchange of diverse cultures can give us.

An interview with artist Shūsaku Arakawa.

An interview with artist Ushio Shinohara.

The fault lines in a marriage become evident when an out-of-town couple and their child arrive for a corporate trade show at a Tehran hotel. Accustomed to berating his pretty wife for her shy demeanor and her suburban manner, the husband is taken aback when she blooms under the attentions of a male colleague and is given a role in planning his company’s presentation. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Republic and has them tell their captivating and sometimes outrageous life stories.